The following sources were consulted in the preparation of the article “Needlework: a forgotten hobby kids once had to learn in school.”
- Elizabeth Parker’s Sampler/Diary: The Autobiographical Needle
- American Needlework in the Eighteenth Century
- American Samplers
- Embroidery – a history of needlework samplers
- Female Education and the Ornamental Arts in Antebellum Tennessee
- “Remember Me”: Six Samplers in the National Archives
- A “Truly Feminine Employment”: Sewing and the Early Nineteenth-Century Woman
- Berlin Wool Work Charts